MUMBAI: NGOs and political parties have decided to join hands to force the civic administration to hold Jan Sunvais (public hearings) to enable Mumbai's poor to participate in preparing the city's new Development Plan (DP). The plan will come into force in 2014 and will be valid up to 2034.
Rajendra Bhise, programme director, Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action (YUVA) said community participation should be an integral aspect of the Development Plan. The participation, he said, should not be a token one as proposed by the BMC; it should not be at the ward level as proposed now, but at the level of electoral wards. "Planners need to take their plans to the people for inputs and suggestions; people know their homes and their settlements better than anyone else," said Bhise.
Professor Amita Bhide, head, School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences said the DP revision process without participation is not only a big loss for the majority poor with no voice, but also detrimental for Mumbai as a city.
She said right to land and resources should not be considered only from an individual point of view, but also from community needs perspective, encompassing its diverse uses. The city space is a complex mixture space with varied needs of residential zones, work places for many organized and unorganized units, play area for the children, safe streets for women, accessible to differently abled and spaces to vendors and hawkers. The DP should incorporate all these diverse needs and interests, she said adding, "Our aim should not be to just have land reservations in DP, but to even have rights over budget allocation and implementation after DP plans get published." Ramdas Athavale of the Republican Party of India and Prabhakar Narkar of the Janata Dal (S) said their parties would hold agitations to demand people's participation in the making of the DP.
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